Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-08-12
PlTH AND POINT.

ing is a chestnut to the fresh who has
heard nothing. -Ne0 Orleans Plea
yttne.
1t is sign of progress when only
twenty-one nicknames can be found in
the Wellesley list of sweet girl gradu-
ates. boston Globe.
There will be no wheat corners in
the immediate future. When the reap
er begins to sing the corners take a
back seat.-Peoria Transcript
The real re ason why negroes live to
such an extreme old age is that they
don't know exactly when they were
born. Shoe and Leather Reporter.
Doubtless the Wall street lambs
rather enjoyed seeing such hardy old
ram as Cyrus w. Field shorn in the
good old way Philadelphia Times.
The man who can name the short
horse whenever one of that kind is a
winner at the races need not envy
Gould's opportunities for fortune max
ing.-S:. Paul Globe.
King Otto of Bavaria has been
officially declared insane. European
royalty is sadly in need of an accession
of healthy plebeian blood. Indiana
polls Saturday Herald.
These are the times when the wife
will pack all the eatables into basket
and 60 off to Sunday-school picnic,
leaving the husband the key to the
house. Toledo Commercial.
There was not as much pomp and
splendor about our Fourth of July as
there was in the jubilee. but it made a
good deal bigger noise. and the acct
dents were far more numerous. - Chi
cage Times.
We should not object so much to
Canada's new protection laws if the
Canadians would not let cmbezzling
bank cashiers in free. 1t is hardly fair
to discriminate in favor of boodlers. -
Aha California.
The explosive steam thrasher is
already in the field. Turing the unsus-
pcctng farmland to replenish a Sizing
hot boiler with cold water and strew-
ing the stubble with its victims. Mis-
Souri Repubiican.
1t is reported that Editor Cutting
has finally taken to the lecture field.
He is unmolcSted, while the Chicago
boodlers are denied bail. Here is Il
pointer for some benevolent anti
poverty society. - Omdha Bee.
Henry 5. Ives, the brilliant young
Wall street operator, has bought $50
900 yacht, and Mr.. j. Smith, the young
faro-bank breaker, has bought 500
600 diamond. The country seems to
be prosperous. - omaha UOrid.
In Russia "the will OF the people"
does not count when it is on the other
side from the will of the car. Hence
a select group of students who were
for the will of the people are on the
way to S IBERIA. -NeV York Mail
There have been more weddings this
week with the THERMOMETERS making
blood heat than during the rigorous
days of winter. This may be attribu-
ted to the Fourth of July; and if not,
we give it up. Ohio State JournaL
"Can Il husband open his wife's let
ters?" is subject for warm debate
from Maine to Florida A husband, if
"he has the spirit of a man. can open
his fe's letters, but 'mustn't expect
TO be happy afterward -BoSr5n Heraid
The Chicago detectives know good
thing when they do it, Charging s23,-
COO for working up the case against
the booIlers is almost as cheeky "a the
way Me Schneider's boiler-repairs
were inflated. -PutSJargh Commercial
Gazcttc.
After all. the men who lost their
money in the Chicago wheat-pit might
It Il have some brains, bat there is no
hope for the man with IN innate hank
erIng to speculate in boom villages in
vsaJlc elsewhere han on papar.-Gat-
rcStou Actrs.
A Washington paper says there is a
great demand for flats AZ the capital.
We should imagine the clearinghouse
keepers would feel rather lonely just
now, but it won't be long before a
brand-new lot of congressman will az
rive there. -Oplnha World.
A murderer hanged somewhere out
west the other day signlied his readi-
ness to be swung of by calling out to the
sheriff: Let 'er 60, Gallagher!' DR..
McGlynn seems to be about equally in
different regarding his excommunica
ton by the pope. -Chicago Times.
Somebody writes TO a New YORK pa
per that it is not man in the moon,
but woman. The world will prefer
TO believe, however. that an individual
who gets full at least once a month,
and frequently doesn't Ego home till
morning" is not member of the fair
SEX Chicago Times.